Brother Tesh Birthday Celebration

Sister Jennifer organised a surprise birthday party for Brother Tesh.

All of us helped by bring a dish and keep it in secret.

Eventually Brother Tesh found out but it has turned out to be a good gathering with the rest of the members!

Annabelle Early Birthday Celebration

This year Annabelle’s birthday is going to be on a Monday, thus Alvin purposely took a day off drove back from Johor Bahru yesterday, just to celebrate our precious daughter’s 11 years old birthday. 

 

Alvin decided that the children should take a day off from all their art class and music class, and our whole family have a relax day out. We finally to go to the Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall to pre-celebrate Annabelle’s birthday.

 

We arrived at Sunway Pyramid around 10.30am after we had our breakfast at USJ 2. We had a movie “Johnny English Strikes Again” at TGV Cinema. This movie has been released for quite sometime, but we did not manage to watch. Although it was quite dry but still funny movie for the children.

 

After the movie, we bought the ice cream birthday cake at Baskin Robbins. Then Alvin took both Issac and Annabelle went for some bows and arrows at Stars Archery! Both of them still love to shoot! We came back to Baskin Robbins to take the birthday cake and headed to Tony Roma's for our lunch.

 

I have the Mojo Chicken with two grilled chicken breasts and Tony’s citrus and brown mustard mojo sauce served with house-made pineapple salsa. It’s kind of Mediterranean style. Alvin had the BBQ 1/2 Chicken served with cobs and broccoli. With the two adults meals, we entitled for 2 Kids Eat for Free Meals.

Alvin asked Annabelle just to choose whatever she like in the menu, and no need to choose from Kids menu. She told us that it is pricy on the main menu, she said it is OK that she choose from the Kids menu. Thus, Annabelle would like to have the chicken burgers; whereby Issac would like to have some chicken tenders.

 

We enjoyed our meals there and of coarse enjoyed the sweet family moments! Initially we would like to blow Annabelle’s birthday ice-cream cake there as our dessert, but it was too full for all of us. We then took the Baskin Robbins ice-cream cake back home.

We blew the candles at night, and finally ate our dessert. After the candle blowing ceremony, Alvin took out the long prepared birthday present for Annabelle. She was so happy and hugged her dear daddy.

Her reaction was so priceless! She was so surprise and happy to know that she is getting her new hand phone after opened her present. It is the Vivo Y81. Annabelle got a new number for herself. She was so happy and went to sleep with a sweet smile on her face.

I feel that she is getting mature as her age grows. She is now starting to think not only for herself, but think for others. Slowly but surely she is growing up, she is not the baby girl that I hold in my arms years ago. 

Mummy still wish you the same as I wished you one year ago: Happy Birthday my sweet heart! May you be blessed by Heavenly Father always and stay in His Light!

Kuala Lumpur District Young Men Zion Camp 30 Aug–1 Sep 2018

This year Young Men Zion  Camp would be held at Hutan Lipur Kuala Who, a national park in Perak. The park is alongside a river and is surrounded by jungle. The camping area is a large grassy field with an attached open hall for cooking and activities. The Boy scouts, including a number of LDS scouts and leaders, have held family and group campouts there and the site is excellent for youth camping.

The goals for youth camp are increase fellowship and friendship between the District Young Men, particularly inter-branch, strengthen gospel testimonies and knowledge, have a great time together and learn practical skills (leadership, camping, cooking, cleaning, etc. in an environment and spirit of brotherhood)

The idea for Young Men Camp this year is to structure it around the Boy Scout “Patrol” method, emphasizing teamwork, self-preparedness, cleanliness and cooperation. In the Patrol method, the young Men would be divided into 4 – 5 groups of 6 – 8 young men with 1 leader assigned to watch group for oversight. Each group will choose their own gospel related tribe name.

Each tribe would be responsible for choosing a tribe leader and assistant tribe leader, camping and sleeping in the same area together, cooking and leaning up together, holding morning  scripture study, prayer and devotional together and acting as a team for sports and gospel related games, skits and activities

Tribes made up of a mix of Young Men from different branches, with one Boy Scot in each tribe so they can help instruct in cooking, cleaning up, etc. Physical activates will include sports activities (examples includes soccer, flag football, flashlight tag, orientating course, bamboo and ropes activity, other large group outdoor activates – boys to pick their games. Each branch young men leader will also prepare on “station” with a game or activity for a Saturday Morning Activity that the tribes will rotate through.

The Activity Highlight was exists to drive the youth 45 minutes on Friday August 31st to the Nomad Adventure Camp (where we went rafting for Youth Conference) and participate in a Half-Day Ropes Adventure Course. It is run and supervised by the Nomad Adventure team.

The course takes about 3 hours, includes a giant swing, a rock scaling activity, and a tree-top course. Spiritual activities would include gospel-related games organized by the different Branch Young Men’s Presidencies, a fireside and devotional, skits, a testimony meeting, and team-bonding activities.

There are a lot of videos which Alvin had took using his GoPro, but I do not know why I unable to open the videos and there are a lot of videos which he took during at the Nomad Adventure. Hopefully I can update the blog one day after figure out why and how to open the file.

Both Alvin and Issac told that this is their first ever camping and they enjoyed 3 days activities but it was really tiring.

I am glad that Issac loves the Church program and activity. Glad to see him grows in the Church!